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Author: Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal _ Burr
As we rounded a small pavilion, we nearly stepped into a pair of figures - who leapt apart. One was William de la Touche Clancey. The other was a well-made boy of perhaps sixteen, carefully got up to resemble a swell; only the red blunt hands betrayed the fact that he was a workie."So!" Clancey gave his accusing goose-like hiss.The boy looked embarrassed, as well he should. There are some things that the poor ought not to do even for money.
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Gore Vidal _ Burr
Dr. Bogart was about to tell me more when William de la Touche Clancey sat down next to me with an insolent crash {do I resemble a country youth because I am small?}
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Gore Vidal _ Burr
The Bowery b'hoys were delighted ... to observe a pair of their favorites in league against their natural enemy, for Clancey detests our democracy, finds even the Whigs radical, the Adams family vulgar, Daniel Webster a . He fills the pages of his magazine with libellous comments on all things American. Despite a rich wife and five children, he is a compulsive sodomite, forever preying on country boys new to the city.
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Gore Vidal _ Burr
Safe at the opposite corner, Clancey was himself again - coolly disdainful despite dirt-smeared face, torn shirt ... Clancey's voice is like that of a furious goose, all honks and hisses.
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Gore Vidal _ Burr
As we left the bar, we saw two men fighting at the wooden pump. One was short and stocky: he was pummelling a tall gangling creature with loose flapping arms ... Edwin Forrest was giving a much deserved beating to William de la Touche Clancey, the Tory sodomite.
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Gore Vidal _ Julian
We wear the purple
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Gore Vidal _ Julian
Stay Longer and you will hear the beginning of your death
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Gore Vidal _ The Last Empire: Essays
When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.
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Gore Vidal _ Burr
breathed breakfast Madeira in my face. "Charlot, he has robbed me!" I looked at her blankly; not breathing until she removed her face from mine, and sank back onto the velvet cushions. "I have married a thief!" Madame clutched her reticule to her bosom as though I had designs on one or the other, and in a torrent of Frenchified English told me how she had owned stock in a toll-bridge near Hartford. During the first raptures of their honeymoon in the house of Governor Edwards, the Colonel persuaded her to sell the stock. So trusting, so loving, so secure in her new place as the bride of a former vice-president, Madame
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Gore Vidal _ Myra Breckinridge
Of course magic was involved at the beginning of my quest. But I have since crossed the shadow line, made magic real, created myself. But to what end? For what true purpose have I smashed the male principle only to become entrapped by the female?
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Gore Vidal _ Burr
I confess to not having listened to a word of the Declaration of Independence. At the time I barely knew the name of the author of this sublime document. I do remember hearing someone comment that since Mr. Jefferson had seen fit to pledge so eloquently our lives to the cause of independence, he might at least join us in the army. But wise Tom preferred the safety of Virginia and the excitement of local politics to the discomforts and dangers of war.
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Gore Vidal _ Burr
In other words, if public opinion is not unduly aroused one may safely set aside the Constitution and illegally arrest one's enemies. Had this letter been published at the time, an excellent case might have been made for the impeachment and removal of a president who had broken that oath he had taken to defend and to protect the Constitution by conspiring to obstruct and pervert the course of justice.
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